Dyvik Kahlen Architects

Contact

Office Porto Praceta Eng. António de Almeida 70 R/C 3, 4100-065 Porto, Portugal Office Palma Carrer Sant Elies 4, 07003 Palma, Spain

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The Studio

Dyvik Kahlen is an architectural office founded by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen. We collaborate worldwide on projects with public and art institutions, developers, artists, curators and private individuals. Our aspiration is to create good spaces that improve the quality of life of those who inhabit them, be it through a piece of furniture, a building or an urban plan. Underlying our work is a desire for objects and spaces that are comfortable and versatile to accommodate our ever-changing needs for life, as much as a fascination for a rational and neutral form as basis of a resourceful and sustainable construction.

Publication

Dyvik Kahlen In Practice – Villa Ruba, 2023

Casabella #930, February 2022

The Architecture Machine, Architecture Museum TU Munich, October 2020

Architecture is just a Pretext, Carnets, 2019

Alternative Histories, Drawing Matter, 2019

Essay in ‘What’s In The Making II’ Otherwhere Publishers, July 2018.

Essay 'Postkarten aus London' has been published in Hiatus, Birkhäuser, Nov 2017.

Frog Magazine #16, interview by Flavien Menu, Nov 2016

Westgreen Place Nursery and Community Centre for Pocket and Haringey Council. Article in Architects Journal, Sep 2016

New Architects 3, Architecture Foundation, Jun 2016

‘New Generations / Jeunes Generations issue, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui , June 2014

Exhibition

The Architecture Machine, Architecture Museum TU Munich, 2020

Alternative Histories by Drawing Matter, London and at CIVA Brussels, 2019

Building Stories, Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, July 2018

A Minor Architecture, Espacio Valverde in Madrid, January 2017.

Common Places: Urban Playgrounds for Amadora, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Oct 2016

AIRBNB Pavilion, 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, Jun 2014

Lecture

What we talk about when we talk about Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney, October 2021

A House and its Ideal Neighbour, Melbourne School of Design, October 2021

Ambiguous Architecture & Inhabitable Structures, TU Munich, May 2021

Lecture, Bergen Architecture School, May 2021

A bedroom is a room with a bed, Syracuse University, London, September 2020

Porto Academy Lecture, Porto, July 2019

'In Practice' with Raamwerk, Brussel, May 2019

Lecture at Oslo Architectural Association(AHO), Mar 2019

Syracuse University, London, Nov 2018

Metamorphoses Symposium, Architecture Foundation London, Oct 2018

The Mirror Series at Betts Project, May 2018.

Corridor at the Le Bourg concert hall and bar in Lausanne, May 2018

'El Simposio Internacional: De la Villa a la Celula' at Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. Apr 2018

Inside/Out Lecture Series, Royal College of Art, February 2018.

With Gafpa Architects at the World Trade Centre, Brussel, Aug 2017

Lecture Kingston University, London, Nov 2016

‘the Small House and the multifunctional city’, at the Architectuurcafé in Amersfoort, Mar 2015

‘Whats Next’ series at the Architectural Association, Nov 2014

Selected Clients The Architectural Association
Barbican Centre
Friedericianum
London College of Fashion
Buchhandlung Walther König
Schipper Bosch
Somerset House
Victoria & Albert Museum
Pocket Living
Royal Academy
The Wellcome Collection
The Design Museum
Arket (H&M Group)
The Royal College of Art
Danish Architecture Center - DAC
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture

Collaborators

Anna Andrich, Architect

Antoine Espinasseau, Photography

Zak Group, Graphic Design

Flavien Menu, Office for Cities

Appleyard & Trew, Quantity Surveyors

Buro Harro, Landscape Architect

Dyvik & Fasting Arkitekter

Fraser Muggeridge, Graphic Design

Kellenberger-White, Graphic Design

MM Projekte GmbH & Co. KG, Project Development

Trevor Scott Consultants, Structural Engineers

Mathias Clottu, Graphic Design

Team Max Kahlen Christopher Dyvik Leopold Castin Leonor Teixeira-Dias Gabriela Meszaros

Previously Fabrizio Ballabio Jørgen Tandberg James Anicich Patricia Roig Michael Cheung Sophia Chang Miscia Leibovich Min Myung Son Daniela Puga Carme de Cara Nadal Daniel Eguren Richard Leung Manfredi Villarosa Alexandra Kvasnicova Alexandra Paritzky Ivana Cobejova Isabel Pietri Alex Otiv Laurence Lumely Remy Crettenand Francisco Pereira

Job Opportunities

If you are interested in working with Dyvik Kahlen please e-mail your CV and portfolio to jobs@dyvikkahlen.com. Files should not exceed 4MB.

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